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From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VI for PC wanted
Message-ID: <210@mks.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 11:09:16 EST
Article-I.D.: mks.210
Posted: Sun Feb  1 11:09:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Feb-87 23:06:41 EST
References: <807@ihlts.UUCP> <968@ihlpf.UUCP> <3320@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <3320@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
> this to believe it.  (Unfortunately, a recent version includes
> anti-snow code which slows it down considerably.  The anti-snow
> provision is pointless, in my opinion, since the snow occurs only
> during the instantaneous FLASH and isn't distracting.  Also, many
> CGA cards don't snow.  A very recent MKS vi has an option "set snow"
> to speed it up, but it's set to the slow mode by default.)
Sigh.  Somebody complains about snow.  So I add in anti-snow code.
So somebody complains about being slower.  So I add an option to go back
the old way.  But the default is for no snow... I know, there is no winning...

>                   in particular, it insists on treating @ as the
> insert-mode kill character, even though MS DOS and my fingers both
> want to use ^U.  (I can map! ^U to @, but it still eats my real @'s
> unless I quote them.)  MKS is making an effort to be responsive and
My MS DOS doesn't take ^U.  None of the ones I have, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2 accept
^U.  They all only take escape.  Escape is certainly one character that
is totally unacceptable inside VI as a line-delete character.  So I used
the old default unix-linedelete character - the at sign (@).  Anyhow, due
to popular demand, the next version will have `set linedelete='.
But it will still default to @.  I know, people will still complain.
[by the way, using `:set noremap' and `:map ^V@ ^V^V\^V^V^V@ you can type at
signs normally]

The "set snow" and "set linedelete=" options are NOT in the current distribution
but will be in in a month or two.  If you bug technical support enough
they might send it to you ...

Alex White
Disclaimer:
	The above opinions are the opinions of 1/3 of the owners of MKS 
	and are of course biased.